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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

assault, attack, banditry, battering, brigandage, brigandism, butchery, depredation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, direption, disorderliness, foraging, foray, forcible seizure, freebooting, killing, laying waste, looting, marauding, massacre, obstreperousness, onslaught, pillage, pillaging, plunder, plundering, raid, raiding, ransacking, rape, rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, ravishment, razzia, reiving, rifling, riot, rioting, sack, slaughter, sowing with salt, spoiling, spoliation, unruliness, violation

Dictionary Results for sacking:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

sacking
    n 1: coarse fabric used for bags or sacks [syn: sacking,
         bagging]
    2: the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to
       depart) [syn: dismissal, dismission, discharge,
       firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Sack \Sack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sacked; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Sacking.] [See Sack pillage.]
   To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to
   ravage.
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         The Romans lay under the apprehensions of seeing their
         city sacked by a barbarous enemy.        --Addison.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Sacking \Sack"ing\, n. [AS. saeccing, from saecc sack, bag.]
   Stout, coarse cloth of which sacks, bags, etc., are made.
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